Cassia bicapsularis L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Caesalpiniaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Cassia bicapsularis L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A shrub, up to 3.5 m. high, glabrous, or nearly so, throughout, the branches slender, sometimes vine-like. Stipules small, early deciduous; leaves 5-9 cm. long, slightly fleshy, bearing an oblong gland narrowed toward the base, between the lowest pair of leaflets; leaflets 3-5 pairs, 1-4 cm. long, short-stalked, rounded at the apex, the upper pair obovate, narrowed at the base, the others oblong to suborbicular, rounded at both ends; racemes axillary, few-flowered, as long as the leaves or longer; pedicels 3-8 mm. long; sepals oblong, obtuse, faintly veined, 8-12 mm. long; petals yellow, veiny, oblong-obovate, somewhat longer than the sepals; pod turgid, subterete, 8-15 cm. long, about 1 cm. thick, longitudinally dehiscent; seeds lenticular, obliquely oval, brown, shining, about 5 mm. long, horizontal.

  • Distribution

    Scrub-lands and loose rocky soil, North Caicos, Grand Turk Island : Bermuda (naturalized); Cuba to Tortola and Grenada; Jamaica; continental tropical America. Christmas-bush. Wild Raisin.

    Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| Cuba South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Grenada South America| Jamaica South America|